May 2012
1 post
April 2012
3 posts
The Technology Behind the Tupac Hologram at... →
Physicist claims victory over traffic ticket with... →
March 2012
2 posts
“I can live with doubt, and uncertainty, and not knowing. I think it’s much...”
– Richard Feynman
February 2012
2 posts
“The differentiations of sex, age, and occupation are not essential to our...”
– Joseph Campbell
December 2011
2 posts
Arcade Fire does it again! →
September 2011
2 posts
Love Life of an Engineer →
August 2011
2 posts
“Daydream, delusion, limousine, eyelash / Oh baby, with your pretty face / Drop a...”
– David Jewell
July 2011
4 posts
John Stuart Mill
Speaking up for us eccentric people circa 1859.
Not
motivated to work on take-home midterm paper for political science.
Death Cab for Cutie - Pictures in an Exhibition
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“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions, but in the...”
– Haruki Murakami, from Sputnik Sweetheart
May 2011
5 posts
Writing sucks
when you have writer’s block. And when you’re given only two weekdays to pull a complete draft out of your ass.
Death Cab on Jimmy Fallon Show! →
“I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years....”
– Stephen Hawking
March 2011
6 posts
New DCFC tours in California!! →
Death Cab album art and tracklisting! →
Computer > Man
But apparently, congressman > computer.
Way to support math and science education, Rep. Rush Holt!
February 2011
8 posts
Literature and classic NES games? →
January 2011
7 posts
Yann Tiersen at San Diego...
So, Yann Tiersen (composer of the soundtrack to Amelie and other films) is going on tour for his new album. And he’s making a stop at San Diego. What serendipity — it’s on the Thursday just before finals week at 9 o’clock in the evening. Plus, the pre-sale tickets are only $18.
And I have no ride to get to the show.
Finally, there is clarity and there is purpose...
December 2010
10 posts
“And when we touch, we’re not really touching. If our atoms did not repel...”
– anonymous
Hindsights
Hindsights
Speaking to you today marks a milestone in my life. I am fifty years old. Thirty-two or years ago, when I was in your seat, I never, ever thought I would be fifty years old.
The implications of being your speaker frightens me. For one thing, when a fifty year old geezer spoke at my baccalaureate ceremony, he was about the last person I’d believe. I have no intention of giving...
Brief cover of the intro to Your Bruise.
New Death Cab album?!!?!
This day keeps getting better and better.
New Bright Eyes album?! →